1817 in rail transport
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This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1817.
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[edit] Births
[edit] March births
- March 26 - Herman Haupt, United States railroad civil engineer (d. 1905).
[edit] July births
- July 1 - Hugh J. Jewett, president of the Erie Railroad 1874–1884 (d. 1898).
- July 15 - John Fowler, British civil engineer (d. 1898).
[edit] October births
- October 2 - Webster Wagner, founder of Wagner Palace Car Company (d. 1883).
- October 17 - Alexander Mitchell, president of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway 1864-1887 (d. 1887).[1]
[edit] Unknown date births
- Matthew Baird, second owner of Baldwin Locomotive Works (d. 1877)
- Walter McQueen, Chief mechanical engineer for the Albany and Schenectady Railroad 1845–1850, Hudson River Railroad 1850–1852, and superintendent of Schenectady Locomotive Works 1852–1876 (d. 1893).
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[edit] References
- White, John H., Jr. (Spring 1986). "America's most noteworthy railroaders". Railroad History 154: pp. 9–15. ISSN 0090-7847. OCLC 1785797.
- White, John H., Jr. (1968). A history of the American locomotive; its development: 1830-1880. New York, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0.
- ^ "Mitchell, Alexander, (1817-1887)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000802. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
